Patrick Kane and Jakub Voracek, who switched teams in an off-season trade, played against their former team Monday when Zurich beat Minsk 5-1. Neither stood out too much, although each man were credited with one assist. It was the first of 11 games to be played in the first 10 days of the season that have players playing against…
GM: Trevor Grimm (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Barry Trotz Last season: 13th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Travis Zajac (waivers), David Booth (waivers), Ryan Smyth (retired) In: Thomas Vanek (free agent), Ville Peltonen (free agent), Antoine Vermette (free agent), Derek Roy, (free agent), Steve Downey (free agent), Adrian Kempe (draft), Rhett Rakhshani (free agent) In…
Tonight’s games in (roughly) two sentences each: Lisbon 4, Geneva 3 (OT) – Hockey officially came to Portugal and the 10,447 who attended were treated to a bonus minute and 4 seconds. That’s when Alexander Steen scored a pretty goal to win it in overtime. Lisbon’s big line of John Tavares, Steven Stamkos and Zach Parise produced…
GM: Bryan Camara (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Willie Desjardins (Replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 4)(Laviollette replaced Todd McLellan after Season 3) Last season: 14th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Claude Giroux (trade), Dougie Hamilton (trade), Gareth Roberts (trade), Chris Higgins (free agent) In: Shea Weber (trade), Zach Parise (trade), John Tavares (trade),…
GM: David Bell (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Bruce Boudreau (replaced Randy Carlyle after season 3) Last season: 22nd overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Thomas Vanek (free agent), Derek Roy (free agent), Johnny Boychuk (free agent) Mark Streit (retired) In: Luca Sbisa (free agent), Par Arlbrandt (draft), Jayce Hawryluk (draft), Lorenzo Maas (draft), Fabian…
GM: Chris Legge (second GM in team’s history) Coach Guy Boucher Last season: 8th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Zach Parise (trade), Ryan Suter (trade) Blake Wheeler (trade), Joe Corvo (free agent), Stephen Gionta (free agent), Tim Kennedy (free agent) In: Patrick Marleau (free agent), Kevin Dallman (trade), Linus Klasen (draft), Olli…
Tonight’s games in two sentences each: Zurich 5, Minsk 1 – The first period of Zurich’s home opener belonged to the visiting Minsk Hussars, who scored its only goal. But the Lions really roared in the next two periods, beating Carey Price 5 times and outshooting Minsk 32-14. Paris 4, London 3 (shootout) – Evgeny…
GM: Marc Peninou (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Randy Carlyle (replaced Lindy Ruff) Last season: 5th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: John Tavares (trade), Tony Martensson (trade), Andrei Kostitsyn (free agent), Braydon Coburn (waivers), Nicklas Grossman (free agent), Alexei Ponikarovsky (free agent), Patrick O’Sullivan (free agent) In: Claude Giroux (traded), Martin Thornberg (trade),…
GM: Chuck Massaro (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Brent Sutter (replaced Bruce Boudreau after Season 3) Last season: 11th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Zdeno Chara (retired), Craig Anderson (free agent), Kyle Brodziak (free agent), Tomas Kopecky (free agent), James Wright (buyout) In: Marc-Andre Fleury (free agent), Troy Brouwer (trade), Chris Kunitz (trade), Matt Frattin (trade), Morten…
GM: Michael Sauer (third GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Johnston (replaced Bob Hartley after Season 4)(Hartley replaced Claude Noel after Season 3) Last season: 15th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Nikita Scherbak (trade), Kevin Bieksa (waivers) In: Jindrich Barak (draft), Sakari Salminen (draft), Connor Bleackley (draft), Ryan Gunderson (draft), Ivan Huml (draft)…
